[b]Jan Mieszkowski
By the time you’re 35, you should have forgotten which of your philosophy books you’ve read and which you haven’t.[/b]
Not counting those you were assigned to read, right?
Greek ethics: Be true to yourself
French ethics: Be true to the other
German ethics: Be true to the true
American ethics: Be true to the fraud you call truth
That or the fake news.
Psychology: The past hurts
Sociology: The present hurts
Politics: The future will hurt
Philosophy: The past conditional perfect will have hurt if the future conditional perfect does as well
If only analytically.
Philosophy: We’ve got all the questions
Religion: We’ve got all the answers
Literature: We changed all the questions
Politics: We rejected all your answers
Or not of course.
Live your life as if it were
Descartes: a dream
Beckett: a joke
Nietzsche: a clumsy lie
Camus: definitely a death sentence
Definitely all of the above.
[b]Your professor appeared to conceive of the seminar as
- a psychoanalytic session
- a Reddit thread
- an opportunity to talk about themselves
- a lawsuit waiting to happen[/b]
Remember back in the days when it was all just a paper chase?